dm-devel.redhat.com archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 03/10] md/dm-crypt: Rename a jump label in crypt_message()
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:43:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e40a8107-7400-bc10-a212-563dd168aac5@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160929125553.kn45yx6jud35463p@thunk.org>

> In what bizzaro world is the "current Linux coding style convention"

Do you look at the evolution for a document like "CodingStyle"?


>> -
>> -error:
>> +show_warning:
>>  	DMWARN("unrecognised message received.");
>>  	return -EINVAL;
>>  }
> 
> "show_warning" is better than "error"

I got such an impression.


> when the net result of the goto is that the function returns -EINVAL?!?

Do other identifiers fit better for the desired description of "what" and "why"
by jump labels?


> Please give it up with these drive-by shooting of auto-generated patches.

This update step was not auto-generated.

There are further change possibilities where special analysis tools
can help in the corresponding software development.


> You're just embarassing yourself.

Do you find any of my update suggestions worth for further considerations?

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-29 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <566ABCD9.1060404@users.sourceforge.net>
2016-09-28 15:34 ` [PATCH 00/10] md/dm-crypt: Fine-tuning for five function implementations SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-28 15:36   ` [PATCH 01/10] md/dm-crypt: Use kcalloc() in crypt_alloc_tfms() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-28 15:38   ` [PATCH 00/10] md/dm-crypt: Fine-tuning for five function implementations Mike Snitzer
2016-09-28 15:38   ` [PATCH 02/10] md/dm-crypt: Reduce the scope for a variable in crypt_alloc_tfms() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-28 15:40   ` [PATCH 03/10] md/dm-crypt: Rename a jump label in crypt_message() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-29 12:55     ` [dm-devel] " Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-29 15:43       ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2016-09-30 10:06         ` Dan Carpenter
2016-09-30 11:32           ` md/dm-crypt: Rename a jump label in crypt_message() ? SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-30 11:39             ` Bjørn Mork
2016-09-30 11:53               ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-30 12:06                 ` Bjørn Mork
2016-09-30 12:54                   ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-30 12:02             ` Dan Carpenter
2016-09-30 12:19               ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-28 15:41   ` [PATCH 04/10] md/dm-crypt: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in crypt_message() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-28 15:42   ` [PATCH 05/10] md/dm-crypt: Rename a jump label in crypt_set_key() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-29 12:56     ` [dm-devel] " Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-28 15:43   ` [PATCH 06/10] md/dm-crypt: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation " SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-28 15:44   ` [PATCH 07/10] md/dm-crypt: Rename a jump label in crypt_iv_tcw_whitening() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-28 15:45   ` [PATCH 08/10] md/dm-crypt: Return directly after a failed crypto_alloc_ahash() in crypt_iv_essiv_ctr() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-28 15:46   ` [PATCH 09/10] md/dm-crypt: Two checks and one function call less in crypt_iv_essiv_ctr() after error detection SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-28 15:47   ` [PATCH 10/10] md/dm-crypt: Delete unnecessary variable initialisations in crypt_iv_essiv_ctr() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-29  9:02 ` [PATCH 00/10] dm snapshot: Fine-tuning for several function implementations SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-29  9:07   ` [PATCH 01/10] dm snapshot: Use kmalloc_array() in init_origin_hash() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-29  9:54     ` Paul Bolle
2016-09-29 10:02       ` Joe Perches
2016-09-29 11:12         ` Paul Bolle
2016-09-29 11:45           ` Paul Bolle
2016-09-29 15:01             ` Joe Perches
2016-09-29 19:43               ` Paul Bolle
2016-09-29 20:24                 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-29 20:39                   ` Paul Bolle
2016-09-29 20:56                     ` Joe Perches
2016-09-29 21:14                       ` Paul Bolle
2016-09-29 21:21                         ` Joe Perches
2016-09-29 21:42                           ` Paul Bolle
2016-09-30  7:14                             ` dm snapshot: Use kmalloc_array() in init_origin_hash() ? SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-29 11:45       ` dm snapshot: Use kmalloc_array() in init_origin_hash() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-29 12:59         ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-29  9:10   ` [PATCH 02/10] dm snapshot: Delete two error messages for a failed memory allocation SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-29  9:11   ` [PATCH 03/10] dm snapshot: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in snapshot_map() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-29  9:12   ` [PATCH 04/10] dm snapshot: Rename a jump label in pending_complete() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-29  9:13   ` [PATCH 05/10] dm snapshot: Delete unnecessary variable initialisations " SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-29  9:14   ` [PATCH 06/10] dm snapshot: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in snapshot_ctr() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-29  9:15   ` [PATCH 07/10] dm snapshot: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in merge_callback() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-29  9:16   ` [PATCH 08/10] dm snapshot: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in remove_single_exception_chunk() SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-29  9:17   ` [PATCH 09/10] dm snapshot: Combine substrings for seven error messages SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-29  9:18   ` [PATCH 10/10] dm snapshot: Delete five unwanted spaces behind "list_for_each_entry" SF Markus Elfring

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=e40a8107-7400-bc10-a212-563dd168aac5@users.sourceforge.net \
    --to=elfring@users.sourceforge.net \
    --cc=agk@redhat.com \
    --cc=dm-devel@redhat.com \
    --cc=julia.lawall@lip6.fr \
    --cc=kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-raid@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=shli@kernel.org \
    --cc=snitzer@redhat.com \
    --cc=tytso@mit.edu \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).